RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] centurytel buys another optical network...

["Roberts, Michael J. (IATS)" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I doubt it.  I bet CenturyTel bought this network to make more money
through leasing wavelengths and/or dark fiber to large customers that
want to run their own ring, not to provide more bandwidth to the average
xDSL user like our selves.  

A good question to ask CenturyTel is how large of a connection do they
have provisioned for commodity internet access for the Columbia, MO ADSL
customers.  

For example, a super fast gigabit ethernet LAN is really nice, but if
you are accessing resources outside your LAN, you are only as fast as
your slowest link, which in most people's cases is their commodity
Internet connection or a WAN link.  Eventhough CenturyTel is a major
telco, they still have to link into a major backbone or larger provider.
Those interfaces cost an unbelievable amount of money.  Shannon could
give you some more insight there.

-mike

-----Original Message-----
From: King, Jonathan W. 
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 3:23 PM
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] centurytel buys another optical network...



http://www.columbiatribune.com/2003/Feb/20030214Busi005.asp

>CenturyTel to buy Digital Teleport of St. Louis   
>Published Friday, February 14, 2003
>
>MONROE, La. (AP) - Rural telecommunications provider CenturyTel Inc. 
>won
>a bid yesterday to acquire the fiber-optic network and customer
contracts 
>of St. Louis-based Digital Teleport Inc. for $38 million. 

[snip]

>Digital Teleport has a fiber-optic network spanning 5,700 miles across
>more rural areas of Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri,
Nebraska, 
>Oklahoma and Tennessee. 

So does anybody know about these guys?  Is this going to improve our
local bandwidth situation any in the near-term?  Given CenturyTel's 
markets, it's pretty easy to see why this was so attractive.

jking

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